I live in plain black tshirts, and I’m a big proponent in general of things being done well even if it costs more. Just ordered, looks like it’ll ship in a month or so, will report back with my...
I live in plain black tshirts, and I’m a big proponent in general of things being done well even if it costs more. Just ordered, looks like it’ll ship in a month or so, will report back with my totally unscientific and arbitrary opinions on whether these are actually worth 6x as much as the bella+canvas blanks I have to replace far more often than I’d like.
I got in right away, so I should have mine in two weeks, I guess. Their channel is great. One massive thing he pointed out is that a lot of shirts are designed to look great on the hanger in the...
I got in right away, so I should have mine in two weeks, I guess.
Their channel is great. One massive thing he pointed out is that a lot of shirts are designed to look great on the hanger in the store, but when you wear them, the stitch on your traps is wrong, so the neckline pulls back a bit.
b+c shirts are alright. I wholesale American Apparel and Los Angeles Apparel and have shirts (TR401) from ~2006 (some older) from AA in my regular rotation and they're good as new. The Los Angeles Apparel ones are the same -- just newer. So if I get that amount of time out of this shirt, its a steal :)
Yeah I’d echo that, “alright” is the word. Perfectly adequate, sometimes less consistent than I’d hope, could use a bit more attention to detail, but serving the functional purpose on an item I...
b+c shirts are alright
Yeah I’d echo that, “alright” is the word. Perfectly adequate, sometimes less consistent than I’d hope, could use a bit more attention to detail, but serving the functional purpose on an item I haven’t had time to do an obsessive deep dive on - that’s why I was quite excited to see this, actually, because it seems to be the end result from someone who already has done that obsessive deep dive!
[Edit] I used to like American Apparel a lot too back in the dim and distant past, then they were hard to find (particularly outside the US) when whatever blow up caused the switch to Los Angeles Apparel, then I heard a lot of varying and sometimes conflicting stories about the CEO being creepy and weird to a degree it meaningfully affected the employees, and by that point I’d needed to find a different brand for basics anyway because of availability and I never got around to looking for them again and figuring out if they were actually a company I wanted to support or not and if so whether they were easy to find in EU/UK. As you can probably tell, clothing is one of those things that I care about to a degree, but not so much it often manages to hit the top of my overly-full to do list if I’ve found something that kinda works…
Dov was like... 30% creepy, 70% show, but I don't doubt that some folks weren't into it. When Gilden bought out AA the quality didn't change a lot, but it did change. AA had been getting more and...
Dov was like... 30% creepy, 70% show, but I don't doubt that some folks weren't into it.
When Gilden bought out AA the quality didn't change a lot, but it did change. AA had been getting more and more inconsistent over the last few years of Dov's reign anyway. No idea why the hell LAA is so much better.
I used to work in the music biz and would design a lot of merch and take a few points on the blanks from the screener. It was great for that time because I'd do these big group buys for my friends so everybody could get super cheap AA stuff.
Its surprising how inconsistent a lot of blanks are, right? You have one job... and I get that everything has tolerances, but some shirts would come out like a large when it should be a medium.
I recently redid my entire wardrobe to be all classy and shit, but yesterday I went out with brown brogues, dark wash denim, a navy v-neck from uniqlo, and a lightweight tan bomber jacket... and a dude stopped me to tell me I was looking right... now I question everything.
yeah, just the cut -- not a thick warm one. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z4F1LJ7 -- I've got four jackets from this brand and they're all a great fit for me. Three aren't insulated and one has a...
yeah, just the cut -- not a thick warm one. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z4F1LJ7 -- I've got four jackets from this brand and they're all a great fit for me. Three aren't insulated and one has a little.
Shift Fashion Group has been doing excellent tear down videos of clothing to show construction, how companies cut corners, and detailing other flaws in clothing. For a long time a lot of people...
Shift Fashion Group has been doing excellent tear down videos of clothing to show construction, how companies cut corners, and detailing other flaws in clothing.
For a long time a lot of people were asking which shirt Joe Ng (founder) was wearing in his videos... and he finally announced that they're selling that shirt.
This is the short documentary about that shirt and the process behind it. Its very low budget and unpolished, but its good stuff to know.
The shirt launched yesterday for $68USD (around $100CAD) plus a tenner for shipping for the singles.
Fun video, although it probably could have been 10 minutes shorter. I've enjoyed a few of their other videos on t-shirts too. It seems like the fabric ought to be great. I found myself wishing I...
Fun video, although it probably could have been 10 minutes shorter. I've enjoyed a few of their other videos on t-shirts too. It seems like the fabric ought to be great. I found myself wishing I could touch the materials throughout the video, especially the final product.
From the beginning I noticed that I didn't like the fit of the t-shirt he was wearing, which was clearly well-fitting in the upper body and loose from the armpits down. It just looks kind of uneven and incongruent to me. I don't mind the oversize trend where the whole shirt is a bit large, but I felt like I couldn't buy a shirt that fits like this. Then I got to the end of the video and it turns out that tight upper body and loose torso was a deliberate design decision. Kind of disappointing how this seems to be the trend. I basically stopped buying any shirts at all for several years because everyone seems to be switching to a boxier fit, even when labeled "slim fit".
My rationale is that for something simple like a t-shirt, the main thing that differentiates a good looking t-shirt and a bad looking t-shirt is fit. A lot of the things that people nitpick t-shirts about like small differences in weight and fabric quality can't really be seen from a normal distance, and stuff showing wear like fading, holes, or "bacon collar" could even be considered a fashion decision. However, If the whole thing looks like it's the wrong size or wrong shape, then to me it just looks bad, regardless of other factors. Well, "bad" if I'm nitpicking my appearance and evaluating expensive clothing purchases for myself. I'm not really judging people that much. It's just a t-shirt, after all.
Sorry that this turned out to be kind of a negative comment. I guess it's a pet peeve of mine.
Now all they need to do is adjust it for a women's cut and add a bunch of autism friendly features like those long sleeves with the finger holes in them, and I'll have the perfect garment. 😅 I...
Now all they need to do is adjust it for a women's cut and add a bunch of autism friendly features like those long sleeves with the finger holes in them, and I'll have the perfect garment.
😅 I know they aren't even trying to get me in their target audience, they wanna do a very specific thing really well. But god I would love that. I wanna live in high quality plain black comfywear.
Reading that garment description was like hearing a cozy personalized ASMR recording... Would buy instantly, especially if the waist is a little more tailored. Now if spouse wore black regularly...
Reading that garment description was like hearing a cozy personalized ASMR recording... Would buy instantly, especially if the waist is a little more tailored.
Now if spouse wore black regularly (too hot, he says), I'd have the perfect gift for him. He's always complaining about having to donate otherwise wearable t-shirts because the neck has stretched beyond looking good.
I live in plain black tshirts, and I’m a big proponent in general of things being done well even if it costs more. Just ordered, looks like it’ll ship in a month or so, will report back with my totally unscientific and arbitrary opinions on whether these are actually worth 6x as much as the bella+canvas blanks I have to replace far more often than I’d like.
I got in right away, so I should have mine in two weeks, I guess.
Their channel is great. One massive thing he pointed out is that a lot of shirts are designed to look great on the hanger in the store, but when you wear them, the stitch on your traps is wrong, so the neckline pulls back a bit.
b+c shirts are alright. I wholesale American Apparel and Los Angeles Apparel and have shirts (TR401) from ~2006 (some older) from AA in my regular rotation and they're good as new. The Los Angeles Apparel ones are the same -- just newer. So if I get that amount of time out of this shirt, its a steal :)
Yeah I’d echo that, “alright” is the word. Perfectly adequate, sometimes less consistent than I’d hope, could use a bit more attention to detail, but serving the functional purpose on an item I haven’t had time to do an obsessive deep dive on - that’s why I was quite excited to see this, actually, because it seems to be the end result from someone who already has done that obsessive deep dive!
[Edit] I used to like American Apparel a lot too back in the dim and distant past, then they were hard to find (particularly outside the US) when whatever blow up caused the switch to Los Angeles Apparel, then I heard a lot of varying and sometimes conflicting stories about the CEO being creepy and weird to a degree it meaningfully affected the employees, and by that point I’d needed to find a different brand for basics anyway because of availability and I never got around to looking for them again and figuring out if they were actually a company I wanted to support or not and if so whether they were easy to find in EU/UK. As you can probably tell, clothing is one of those things that I care about to a degree, but not so much it often manages to hit the top of my overly-full to do list if I’ve found something that kinda works…
Dov was like... 30% creepy, 70% show, but I don't doubt that some folks weren't into it.
When Gilden bought out AA the quality didn't change a lot, but it did change. AA had been getting more and more inconsistent over the last few years of Dov's reign anyway. No idea why the hell LAA is so much better.
I used to work in the music biz and would design a lot of merch and take a few points on the blanks from the screener. It was great for that time because I'd do these big group buys for my friends so everybody could get super cheap AA stuff.
Its surprising how inconsistent a lot of blanks are, right? You have one job... and I get that everything has tolerances, but some shirts would come out like a large when it should be a medium.
I recently redid my entire wardrobe to be all classy and shit, but yesterday I went out with brown brogues, dark wash denim, a navy v-neck from uniqlo, and a lightweight tan bomber jacket... and a dude stopped me to tell me I was looking right... now I question everything.
a bomber jacket...in June? Very nearly July even.
yeah, just the cut -- not a thick warm one. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z4F1LJ7 -- I've got four jackets from this brand and they're all a great fit for me. Three aren't insulated and one has a little.
Shift Fashion Group has been doing excellent tear down videos of clothing to show construction, how companies cut corners, and detailing other flaws in clothing.
For a long time a lot of people were asking which shirt Joe Ng (founder) was wearing in his videos... and he finally announced that they're selling that shirt.
This is the short documentary about that shirt and the process behind it. Its very low budget and unpolished, but its good stuff to know.
The shirt launched yesterday for $68USD (around $100CAD) plus a tenner for shipping for the singles.
edit: to save some time, here are the specs
Fun video, although it probably could have been 10 minutes shorter. I've enjoyed a few of their other videos on t-shirts too. It seems like the fabric ought to be great. I found myself wishing I could touch the materials throughout the video, especially the final product.
From the beginning I noticed that I didn't like the fit of the t-shirt he was wearing, which was clearly well-fitting in the upper body and loose from the armpits down. It just looks kind of uneven and incongruent to me. I don't mind the oversize trend where the whole shirt is a bit large, but I felt like I couldn't buy a shirt that fits like this. Then I got to the end of the video and it turns out that tight upper body and loose torso was a deliberate design decision. Kind of disappointing how this seems to be the trend. I basically stopped buying any shirts at all for several years because everyone seems to be switching to a boxier fit, even when labeled "slim fit".
My rationale is that for something simple like a t-shirt, the main thing that differentiates a good looking t-shirt and a bad looking t-shirt is fit. A lot of the things that people nitpick t-shirts about like small differences in weight and fabric quality can't really be seen from a normal distance, and stuff showing wear like fading, holes, or "bacon collar" could even be considered a fashion decision. However, If the whole thing looks like it's the wrong size or wrong shape, then to me it just looks bad, regardless of other factors. Well, "bad" if I'm nitpicking my appearance and evaluating expensive clothing purchases for myself. I'm not really judging people that much. It's just a t-shirt, after all.
Sorry that this turned out to be kind of a negative comment. I guess it's a pet peeve of mine.
I would never spend that much on a single shirt, but honestly, $68 seems pretty reasonable for that level of quality.
Now all they need to do is adjust it for a women's cut and add a bunch of autism friendly features like those long sleeves with the finger holes in them, and I'll have the perfect garment.
😅 I know they aren't even trying to get me in their target audience, they wanna do a very specific thing really well. But god I would love that. I wanna live in high quality plain black comfywear.
Reading that garment description was like hearing a cozy personalized ASMR recording... Would buy instantly, especially if the waist is a little more tailored.
Now if spouse wore black regularly (too hot, he says), I'd have the perfect gift for him. He's always complaining about having to donate otherwise wearable t-shirts because the neck has stretched beyond looking good.